Una historia del secularismo global y el sentimiento político a través de la ley colonial sobre la blasfemia.
¿Por qué la religión hoy en día se asocia tan a menudo con ofender y recibir ofensas? Para responder a esta pregunta, Slandering the Sacred nos invita a considerar cómo las infraestructuras coloniales dieron forma a nuestro mundo globalizado.
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Uma história de secularismo global e sentimento político através da lei de blasfêmia colonial.
Por que a religião hoje é tão frequentemente associada a ofender e ser ofendido? Para responder a essa pergunta, Slandering the Sacred nos convida a considerar como as infraestruturas coloniais moldaram nosso mundo globalizado.
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A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code), J. Barton Scott weaves a globe-trotting narrative about secularism, empire, insult, and outrage. Decentering white martyrs to free thought, his story calls for new histories of blasphemy that return these thinkers to their imperial context, dismantle the cultural boundaries of the West, and transgress the borders between the secular and the sacred as well as the public and the private.
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